THE HONDURAS PROGRESS AND PRESS

So far the mediation process has not produced an accord... yet the parties have committed to resolving the crisis. I find it bizarre how the media have framed these developments as a failure... Yes the deadline is crossed and that puts more pressure to the new administration in the Honduras but this is not a failure compared with the overall progress... I wonder how often this is the case...

Why do the media chose pessimism instead of optimism during a peace process at least in this case? What are the consequences to the conflict? More intense mobilization? Increase of consideration to alternative to peaceful methods and processes? Prolonging the status quo? What perceptional, attitudinal, and behavioral responses might such media tendency - if consistent and persistent - do to the conflict and the conflict transformation process?

For the time being very little is known on the actual content of the mediation talks... and the parties are still talking. As - again - this is a constitutional crisis to be resolved among constitutional lawyers, such negative press might only prolong the consequences of the coup itself... that ignition of an intractable situation out of a routine political disagreement. The question being... who would really want such a thing...?!